Yes, there is a war within us, but it is a civil war. In the core of your being you are a good man. The New Testament calls you a saint, a holy one, a son of God. … The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than ‘a sinner saved by grace.’ You are a lot more than that. That’s why Paul says in Romans 2:29, ‘No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly, and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit.’ Sin is not the deepest thing about you. I will be their God, and they will be my people.’ I will give you a new heart. In Jeremiah 31:33, God announces the cure for all that: ‘I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. They’ve had Jeremiah 17:9 drilled into them and they walk around believing my heart is deceitfully wicked. “Too many Christians today are living back in the old covenant. He teaches that Jeremiah 17:9 doesn’t apply to a believer and he can therefore follow his heart: He promotes psycho-babble, spending a lot of time talking about “father wounds.” One of his mentors is psychologist Larry Crabb, and he worked with Focus on the Family for 10 years. J ohn Eldredge, the co-founder of Ransomed Heart ministries and author of The Sacred Romance and Wild at Heart, is a dangerous spiritual guide.
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